Amazon Echo Studio 2025 Smart Speaker

The premium smart speaker segment has consolidated around a few serious contenders — the Sonos Era 300, Apple HomePod (2nd gen), and now the refreshed Echo Studio sitting at $219.99. Amazon's flagship speaker has always competed on the axis of object-based audio processing at a mass-market price point, and the 2025 model maintains that positioning while upgrading the internal silicon. The AZ3 Pro chip is the notable hardware headline here, representing Amazon's next step past the AZ2 Neural used in the 4th-gen Echo and Echo Show 15 — a meaningful platform shift rather than a spec-bump reskin. …More info